Podcasts

Need to Know

Benefits in Doubt

As unemployment has grown in America, so too has something else -- business for firms that help employers process, and in many cases challenge, unemployment claims. Financial correspondent Stacey Tisdale examines these third party administrators, as they're known, and discovers that many of the newly jobless, who expect to get by on unemployment benefits for a while, are in for a rude awakening.
<< view less

Support WGBH

Sign-up for WGBH News updates, WGBH promotions, and previews of what's coming up on WGBH TV.

ABOUT NEED TO KNOW

Less noise. More news. PBS's new TV and Web newsmagazine gives you what you need to know — along with a healthy dose of insight, perspective, and wit. Need to Know cuts through the noise of nonstop news to bring you the most compelling stories of the week and of our times, every Friday night and all week long on the Web.